{"id":1972,"date":"2018-11-09T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2018-11-11T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T12:31:14","slug":"revisit-2-the-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"Revisit 2: The Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Look, I’m probably going to upset people, including myself, here.<\/p>\n

I don’t like The Fountain<\/strike>. Often don’t like The Fountain.<\/p>\n

There’s so much to love. It’s traditional, it’s Victorian, and it’s a free house now, even if the excellent beers from my favourite brewery<\/a> still form the base of the range. The beer is excellent, and there’s cobs. The music is OK and usually at a sane volume. The staff are all lovely, and there’s sometimes a pubcat.<\/p>\n

So what’s wrong?<\/p>\n

The customers.<\/p>\n

Every time I visit, unless it’s a very quiet time, there’s one or more group of obnoxious customers. The middle-class closet rascist bar-blocking group, standing in the way all the time. The hipster types talking bollocks about the Spanish revolution, the hipster parents turning the place into a creche-cum-playground.<\/p>\n

It ruins it. I think maybe there’s a bit of “victim of it’s own success” here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previous post here. Look, I’m probably going to upset people, including myself, here. I don’t like The Fountain. Often don’t like The Fountain. There’s so much to love. It’s traditional, it’s Victorian, and it’s a free house now, even if the excellent beers from my favourite brewery still form the base of the range. The … Continue reading Revisit 2: The Fountain<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,3],"tags":[5,4,250,238,196],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisits","category-walsall","tag-ale","tag-food","tag-free-house","tag-revisits","tag-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}